Prof. Dr. Ludger Jansen is Cusanus Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophical-Theological College of Brixen/Bressanone and Adjunct Professor at the University of Rostock, where he heads a DFG project on the philosophy of bionics.

Ludger Jansen studied philosophy, Catholic theology and journalism in Münster, St. Andrews, Tübingen and at the FU Berlin. He completed his doctorate in Münster in 2001 with a thesis on causal properties in Aristotle’s Metaphysics; he habilitated in Rostock in 2011 with a thesis on analytical social ontology.

Jansen’s research focuses on the interface between metaphysics and philosophy of science. In particular, he works on the question of how structures of classical Aristotelian metaphysics can help to make research data, scientific knowledge or digitised cultural assets more accessible and linkable today. He is the author of “Tun und Können“ (2nd ed, Wiesbaden 2016) and “Gruppen und Institutionen” (Wiesbaden 2017) as well as co-editor of “Biomedizinische Ontologie” (with Barry Smith, Zurich 2008), “Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation” (with Petter Sandstad, Routledge 2021), “Seele Digital” (Regensburg 2022), “Scripture and Theology” (with Tomas Bokedal and Michael Borowski, Berlin 2023) and “The Ontology of Music Groups” (with Thorben Petersen, Routledge 2024). He is also editor of the book series “Themen der antiken Philosophie” and “Philosophia Theologica“ and a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal “Applied Ontology”, the “Journal for Biomedical Semantics” and the book series “Historia Logicae”.

List of publications: https://purl.org/jansen/publ

Website at the PTH Brixen: https://www.pthsta.it/ueber-uns/professorinnen/professoren/jansen-ludger-prof-dr-habil